Questions, questions

What's a mun? I saw it on the info for theatrical_muse. I sort of twigged what a pup was. But why mun? Speaking of odd fannish terminology, I came across an article about smarm. Smarm as in a fannish term for the stories that make you go a bit squooshy. Yeah, I'm being clear aren't I? Soppy but in a good way, I suppose would be another word. The part of a story that gives you that nice sensation in your stomach. I've no idea if people still use the word smarm much in its fannish meaning- I certainly never see it used but then I'm only really in two fandoms. Apparently it came to have its fannish meaning through a misunderstanding; Person X described a particular scene in a story as'smarmy'. The person reading the comment, who didn't know the word, thought, as she'd liked that scene very much, that smarmy meant, 'something in a story that makes you squee', to use another fannish term. And she spread the term around amongst other people who'd also never heard of the word 'smarm' before. Which is funny because smarm for me, in its non-fannish useage, means pretty much the opposite. It has negative connotations, and I could never dream of using it to mean anything else. Is smarm a popular fannish word?

In other news, the Yuletide fic is up, running and smarming towards the finishing line. I really should get back to it work.

And, I've still got some Christmas cards left if anyone else would like one. I suppose it might arrive a bit later now though. Email me here: louise @ edfrank .fsnet.co.uk